Re: The Packard plant just can't stay out of the local news...

Posted by A man who owns one! On 2010/9/25 12:41:20

My brother and I took a road trip to see the plant last january. We stopped at the Packard Inn, what a $#it hole of a place. At the lobby we asked about the plant across the street. The receptionist said that there were fires inside each and every night. Only on occasion would the fire dept run off the vagrents and extinguish the fires. And that was only when they were big fires. When I say lobby I meant a window with bullet proof glass and steel bars the customer still stood in the elements without so much as an overhang to keep from getting rained on. We arrived at almost dusk and were way to scared to go inside the building. We drove around and down the middle but there was too much trash rubble and debris to go all the way through the center. They said the day we went the fire trucks had just left. When you drive anywhere in the area you feel like your driving in a third world country. It was worse than the pics of katrina. There were burnt cars and mattresses and old appliences stacked up and down the streets sometimes 12ft high. I drove from atlanta ga to detroit hoping to go inside and find a letter head or a tool or some sort of momento that had been lost in time. I left empty handed and very disappointed, I now wish I had stayed home and looked at pics of it's hayday. It's beyond repair and should be demolished, even if they start with just the steel beams!

And I hate that that's the lasting impression of Packard on the city of detroit. What ever group of investors that gentleman is representing should recieve a swift kick in the seat for letting that beautiful building become the derelict blight on society it has.